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“Redes sociais” na Roma antiga e no século XVII

27 Junho, 2013 at 10:24 am 2 comentários

Tom Standage, autor de “Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years“, escreve sobre as “redes sociais” na Roma antiga, e da forma como os autores utilizavam essas redes para difundir e publicar as suas obras:

• Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking – One of the stories I tell in “Writing on the Wall” is about the way the Roman book-trade worked. There were no printing presses, so copying of books, which took the form of multiple papyrus rolls, was done entirely by hand, by scribes, most of whom were slaves. There were no formal publishers either, so Roman authors had to rely on word-of-mouth recommendations and social distribution of their works via their networks of friends and acquaintances.

E, também, sobre as coffeehouses dos finais do século XVII, em Inglaterra:

• Social Networking in the 1600s – Like coffee itself, coffeehouses were an import from the Arab world. England’s first coffeehouse opened in Oxford in the early 1650s, and hundreds of similar establishments sprang up in London and other cities in the following years. People went to coffeehouses not just to drink coffee, but to read and discuss the latest pamphlets and news-sheets and to catch up on rumor and gossip.

  Coffeehouses were also used as post offices. Patrons would visit their favorite coffeehouses several times a day to check for new mail, catch up on the news and talk to other coffee drinkers, both friends and strangers. Some coffeehouses specialized in discussion of particular topics, like science, politics, literature or shipping. As customers moved from one to the other, information circulated with them.

(via Kottke)

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